Thursday, January 21, 2016

Tonight's Sky for January 21: Cosmic Soccer, Pollux?

Tonight,
there will be a bit of cosmic soccer, of sorts, as the Moon
will be parked right next to the cosmic twins, Gemini, and more
specifically, next to the foot of Pollux, the lower of the twins as
seen when the constellation is just starting to rise in the East. As
a second activity, if you have a telescope handy, turn it on Castor,
the other twin as it is a binary (multiple) star system and see how
many of the companion stars you can spot. For the record, Castor is a
6-star system.